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title: Turtles, tortoises, lizards, snakes and baby chicks often carry salm… — Wild birds, bats and germs from animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Turtles, tortoises, lizards, snakes and baby chicks often carry salmonella germs. Who acts: Turtles. A sentence of the lesson «Wild birds, bats and germs from animals» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wild birds, bats and germs from animals, sentence 9

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Turtles, tortoises, lizards, snakes and baby chicks often carry salmonella germs.

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**Who acts:** Turtles · **What happens:** carry · **To what, where:** salmonella germs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Wild birds, bats and germs from animals» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Turtles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:029-germs-from-animals.lesson:9
# text = Turtles, tortoises, lizards, snakes and baby chicks often carry salmonella germs.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 029-germs-from-animals.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change
1	Turtles	turtle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	tortoises	tortoise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	lizards	lizard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	chicks	chick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
11	often	often	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	salmonella	salmonella	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | present | Turtles and tortoises and lizards and snakes and baby chicks | salmonella germs |  |  |  | often *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:029-germs-from-animals.lesson:9`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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